Isekaied Into An Eroge, Time To Have Fun!-Chapter 220: Challenging Journey (2)
Earth Mana began to spill out of its body and burrow into the ground beneath us, causing the tunnel to tremble as the bear attempted to do something about us right before it died; hearing the rattling of loose stones dropping against the floor and the groans of various somewhat loose rocks getting closer to being knocked free, we found ourselves in quite the predicament.
Even still the first order of business was to finish off the bear before it could cause any more trouble, and to that effect both Taji and I readied another attack, though unsurprisingly the Hyenakin was far quicker in acting than I was.
Yanking her sword free from the bear’s ribs and sending an arc of blood splashing across the floor and wall beside her, Taji flicked her blade to the side once and murmured something, causing the weapon to crackle before it exploded with electricity.
Flickering once more and appearing in front of the monster, Taji swung her blade upwards and cleaved through the monster’s softer underbelly, opening it up and causing its guts to spill out onto the floor with wet plops.
The bear stumbled backwards and fell back onto its legs, staring at Taji in shock before it tumbled to the ground a moment later, the blood loss and lingering lightning stopping its heart and killing it off rather unceremoniously.
The tunnel was still shaking slightly but the tremors were slowly stopping, and with no clear signs of any more damage it would appear that we were safe again, though one of us was currently in far more danger than the other.
With her back towards me and her mana slowly fading back into her body, Taji glanced over her shoulder and froze as she realized I still had an arrow nocked and aimed, but instead of it being pointed towards the now dead monster it was instead aimed straight at the back of her skull.
Our eyes met and immediately caused time to crawl to a standstill as we stared at one another, stuck in place and waiting for something to happen; I so desperately wanted to release the arrow and kill her here and now, but something in me was holding me back.
Her muddy red eyes were filled with a small amount of genuine fear as she stared past that arrow and at me, though when I took a long, steadying breath and saw her flinch I couldn’t help but chuckle softly as I carefully retrieved my arrow and stashed it back in the quiver.
"You thought I was going to shoot you..?"
With her blade still in her hand Taji seemed... frozen, her eyes locked to mine as she continued to watch me set myself back into a neutral stance as I looked back at her, and it took her a few moments more before she let out a breath of her own.
"There was a part of me that felt like you might." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
The typical teasing tone she had was gone, and it filled me with a bit of triumphant joy as I grinned at her and replied "I wanted to. Oh I so badly wanted to...", causing her to narrow her eyes before she asked "But you didn’t want to feel what it was like..? Ending someone’s life..?"
"You... are a horrible person, Taji, and I have a feeling you’ve done some terrible things before, things that deserve punishment... but... so far..."
Biting my cheek and looking away, I clenched the bow a little harder before sighing as I continued on with a bit of a tired tone, not looking at her still even as I said "You haven’t been someone I... want to..."
Shaking my head and leaving that unsaid, I internally realized just how much the idea of killing an actual person shook me compared to a monster, and after these handful of encounters with Taji she had earned my anger but not my hatred.
There was also that small part of me that kept whispering about how much of a shame it would be to kill someone as handsome and obsessed as this, a part of me that was reminding me she seemed to have quite the ’package’ on her and that it would probably feel great to lay with her...
The consequences of living a debauched lifestyle rearing its head, I suppose, since killing someone as handsome as Taji rubbed me the wrong way slightly, though that didn’t mean I was about to start loving on her and giving her what she wanted.
Sheathing her blade and walking straight up to me, the Hyenakin looked down at me for a moment before pulling me into her arms, hugging me tight before promptly grabbing my ass and kissing me hard, revealing her hunger to me once more.
Pushing her away and glaring at her, I prepared to say something only to be cut off as she licked her lips and said "You aren’t helping yourself here, Natalie... I want you more now... So many others would have killed me there, but you spared me..? That’s so interesting..."
Her hands found their way back onto me not even a moment after I pushed her away, and even as I growled "Now I regret not shooting you..." she just laughed and kissed me again, savoring the taste for a moment before giving me a smack on the rear as she finally let me go.
"No you don’t, and now I have you... and you don’t even realize it~! Alright then... come on, let’s get going back to the Academy."
Taji gave me a wink before she grabbed my hand again, that stupid grin still adorning her face as she walked me around the corpse and back through the tunnels, ignoring my attempts to get free and not minding at all how I cursed her multiple times.
Her grip hurt sometimes, her pace was a bit too fast for me to match, she constantly yanked my arm and stole a kiss whenever she felt like it... but she was also holding me in a way that felt... possessive, which tickled my heart in a very weird way.
